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authorPaul Mackerras2006-12-20 13:57:06 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras2006-12-20 16:37:49 +1100
commit1c9bb1a01ac1bc92a0d98cf3e40a7922ee684dc0 (patch)
tree4072b12f9507045ed75595727998a00f17cdacc8 /Documentation
parentbb63ab13515951f4d09b16c9e8bd6e50b0f20d1e (diff)
[POWERPC] Fix register save area alignment for swapcontext syscall
For 32-bit processes, the getcontext side of the swapcontext system call (i.e. the saving of the context when the first argument is non-NULL) has to set the ctx->uc_mcontext.uc_regs pointer to the place where it saves the registers. Which it does, but it doesn't ensure that the pointer is 16-byte aligned. 16-byte alignment is needed because the Altivec/VMX registers are saved in there, and they need to be on a 16-byte boundary. This fixes it by ensuring the appropriate alignment of the pointer. This issue was pointed out by Jakub Jelinek. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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